Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] much [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 2 | Suspicion and hostility towards the law in working-class London at the turn of the century drew on much deeper funds of popular feeling than can be usefully or relevantly summed up as the work of ‘ Hooligan ’ gangs or ‘ Hooliganism ’ . |
| 3 | Some insects send out much longer-range messages . |
| 4 | We will bring in much tighter labelling requirements for all foods , and make funding available for food research and scientific establishments . |
| 5 | Heroines like Mrs Radcliffe 's Emily in The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) are used to living in much grander houses ; but this little building is designed to reassure even the most genteel with a sense of arrival , so that the wanderer feels instantly ‘ at home ’ . |
| 6 | But to have tolerance preached from Westminster by people living in much easier circumstances can seem a bit rich . |
| 7 | ‘ In those days I was eating Almond Toffee Creams and they came in much cracklier paper . ’ |
| 8 | But the following morning , at the air base at Hildorf , the American seemed in much better spirits as Major Koenig , the officer commanding the Enemy Aircraft Flight , showed them round . |
| 9 | These two points of view seem important enough to discuss in much greater depth . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , British firms did take on much more debt in 1988–90 , after almost a decade of using record profits to slim debts . |
| 11 | There are two types of ageing alcohol abuser ; those whose drinking started in much earlier years , and those whose drinking habits have started or become excessive in old age . |
| 12 | Four intensive treatments from the Poly Kur Intensive Hair-Repair Treatment range — our tester said the one for dry hair worked so well that her hair went from sow 's ear to silk purse , and felt in much better condition immediately ( £3.45 each , from major Boots ' branches ) . |
| 13 | In July the Eliots travelled up to Leeds , and although he had a mild infection in August he said that he felt in much better health . |
| 14 | That stars can vary over much longer periods seems likely . |
| 15 | Some areas of our work will be discussed in much greater detail in the seminars this afternoon . |
| 16 | The chimpanzees live in groups of sixty or so , though they move in much smaller parties . |
| 17 | This was the case even with black and white ( monochrome ) , though the shallow focal planes preferred in much 1930s cinematography , sharp only on the foreground or middle ground , tolerated slightly dim and fuzzy backgrounds which were seen out of focus in the final process shot . |
| 18 | There are also funds investing in much smaller economies representing 1 per cent or less of world capitalisation . |
| 19 | Pluralists , for example , may now be more willing to examine in much greater detail the relationships between state institutions and the mass media , just as Marxists may be more prepared to consider empirical and detailed case studies . |
| 20 | See-through desks and small tables of glass and metal , or plexiglass , or perspex will appear to take up much less space . |
| 21 | I am a collector who lives in a flat , and boxed sets take up much more space than separate discs . |
| 22 | The Children Act could also open up much wider possibilities , affecting whole groups of travellers . |
| 23 | The hunt take out much younger people , pony clubbers of six or seven years old . |
| 24 | Indeed HP and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship ( UX No 430 ) . |
| 25 | Indeed Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship — ‘ Hewlett-Packard and IBM is a done deal , ’ according to one insider . |
| 26 | A few of the rarer sorts of meteorite have been chipped off much larger blocks : the Moon and Mars . |
| 27 | I could n't find out much that morning , but the next time I had a chance , I did . |